Faculty Members

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Fatihcan Atay
Professor, Department Head
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1994
Dynamical systems, delay differential equations, complex systems, applied mathematics

Office: SA-115
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1586
E-mail: f.atay [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
İnci Pekgüleç Apaydın
Instructor
M.S., Operational Research, Middle East Technical University, 1989
Classical and Exploratory Statistics, Forecasting, Statistical Decision Making

Office: SA-144
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2131
E-mail: incia [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Laurence Barker
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Oxford University, 1992
Finite groups, representation theory, local and Clifford theory, G-algebras, G-posets

Office: SA-129
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2120
E-mail: barker [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Kadri İlker Berktav
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, 2021
Algebraic geometry, higher structures, mathematical physics

Office: SA-103
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1883
E-mail: kadri.berktav [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Alexander Degtyarev
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Steklov Mathematical Institute, 1988
Topology, algebraic geometry

Office: SA-130
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2135
E-mail: degt [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Aurelian Gheondea
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1990
Functional analysis, operator theory, mathematical physics, numerical analysis

Office: SA-118
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2102
E-mail: aurelian [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Alexander Goncharov
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Rostov State University, 1986
Functional analysis, operator theory, mathematical physics, numerical analysis

Office: SA-122
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1923
E-mail: goncha [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Ahmet Güloğlu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Ohio State University, 2005
Analytic number theory

Office: SA-131
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2747
E-mail: guloglua [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Metin Gürses
Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1975
Mathematical physics, integrability of nonlinear PDEs, higher-dimensional classical field theories

Office: SA-126
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1924
E-mail: gurses [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Yaghoub Heydarzade
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Physics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, 2018
Theoretical physics, gravitation and cosmology

Office: SA-137
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1590
E-mail: yheydarzade [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
H. Turgay Kaptanoğlu
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
Complex analysis and operator theory in spaces of holomorphic and harmonic functions of several variables

Office: SA-124
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2101
E-mail: kaptan [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Çisil Karagüzel
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022
Representation theory of finite groups

Office: SA-114
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1085
E-mail: cisil [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Azer Kerimov
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics and Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 1988
Mathematical theory of statistical physics, probability, mathematical analysis

Office: SA-120
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1627
E-mail: kerimov [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Dilek Köksal
Instructor
Ph.D., Statistics, Ankara University, 1984
Probability and statistics

Office: SA-105
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2132
E-mail: dilek [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Cihan Okay
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 2014
Algebraic topology, quantum information theory

Office: SA-140
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2103
E-mail: cihan.okay [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Türker Özsarı
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Virginia, 2010
Analysis of partial differential equations and control theory

Office: SA-111A
Phone: +90 (312) 290 2899
E-mail: turker.ozsari [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Tomos Parry
Instructor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2020
Analytic number theory

Office: SA-135
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2475
E-mail: tomos[-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Naci Saldı
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Queen's University, 2015
Stochastic control theory, game theory, machine learning, information theory, probability theory and its applications

Office: SA-139
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1938
E-mail: naci.saldi [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Ali Sinan Sertöz
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984
Algebraic geometry

Office: SA-121
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1490
E-mail: sertoz [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Müfit Sezer
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Purdue University, 2003
Commutative algebra, invariant theory

Office: SA-117
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1255
E-mail: sezer [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Okan Tekman
Lecturer
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 1992
Automorphic forms

Office: SA-125
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1256
E-mail: otekman [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Bülent Ünal
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Missouri, 2000
Differential geometry, global analysis on manifolds, general relativity and quantum field theories

Office: SA-109
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1719
E-mail: bulent [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Özgün Ünlü
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Algebraic topology, geometric group theory

Office: SA-123
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1359
E-mail: unluo [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Ergün Yalçın
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
Cohomology of groups, finite group actions on topological spaces

Office: SA-127
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2115
E-mail: yalcine [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Hamza Yeşilyurt
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004
Analytic number theory

Office: SA-106
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1897
E-mail: hamza [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Gökhan Yıldırım
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2013
Probability theory, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistics

Office: SA-142
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2104
E-mail: gokhan.yildirim [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Deniz Yılmaz
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020
Representation theory, finite groups, block theory, biset functors

Office: SA-143
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2130
E-mail: d.yilmaz [-at-] bilkent.edu.tr
Natalya Zheltukhina
Instructor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Bilkent University, 2002
Theory of entire functions, Polya frequency sequences

Office: SA-111b
Phone: +90 (312) 290-2465
E-mail: natalya [-at-] fen.bilkent.edu.tr






Emeriti

Alexander Klyachko
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, Saratov State University, 1973
Algebra, algebraic geometry, number theory
Mefharet Kocatepe
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1978
Functional analysis, nuclear spaces, Köthe spaces
Ali Süleyman Üstünel
Visiting Professor
Doctorat d'Etat, Mathematics, University of Paris VI, 1981
Probability and analysis, stochastic calculus, financial mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Bilkent University
06800 Ankara, Turkey
Phone: +90 (312) 290-1586 / 266-4377
Fax: +90 (312) 266-4579